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lifeafterthelayoff · 7 months ago

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Part II, Day 86

Now that you’re unemployed, what do you actually do all day? QUITE A BIT.

After a layoff, you might find yourself with some extra time on your hands. Maybe 40 hours per week, or maybe 50, 60, or 70 hours (if you had a particularly taxing job.) What a time bonanza! What ever will you do with all of that new free time?

My parents came up for an overnight visit yesterday. They’re both retired, so part of their 40 hours per week of free time was spent hanging out with me. When back home, they keep busy, cutting firewood and making quilts. Plus a fair amount of puttering around and naps. As it should be.

Having been retired for several years, they’ve since adjusted to the freedom that comes with an open schedule. When I worked for a financial services/retirement planning company, we talked about a transition period that happens immediately after retirement as new retirees suddenly stop reporting for duty each day. No one teaches you how to be retired.

The same goes for being laid off. I don’t remember “Layoff 101” being a prerequisite course for any major I looked at in college. And I just checked my community’s adult education class offerings—it wasn’t there either.

So we learn how to do this on our own. It goes in phases:

🚨 Early panic part

👷 Heads-down prep work

☕ Coffee/lunch era

🕒 Apply and wait purgatory

Once you’ve set things up, the time tends to slow down. With your portfolio and presentations set, resume at the ready, and cover letter templates complete, you apply, apply, apply. There’s only so many roles out there, so the act of application doesn’t take much out of your day.

What’s left? Home projects, puzzles, and reading. Quality cat time (as pictured). Go for walks, now that it’s nice out. Maybe you’ve got an online course that you never quite finished. You could bother your work-at-home spouse or partner or roommate with endless job-search updates. (They do love that.)

The end of the day as an unemployed person arrives more quickly than I ever thought it would. There’s always *something* going on, even when I don’t plan it out. It sort of blows my mind. Like, how did I ever get all of these things done when I had a job? (Answer: I didn’t always get the things done.)

I’m a believer in using this time as best you can. It’s a weird time in your life. You might find yourself between vivid, squelching anxiety and an oddly peaceful detachment. In the places in between, you really can enjoy a different kind of life, fleeting as it may be.

If you’re a job seeker and you’ve landed on this post after looking at LinkedIn for a loooong time, close the app or the tab and just sit with the moment. Pick up that book, take that nap, pet that cat (or dog). Working life will return in due time.

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udaya29 · 8 months ago

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A Bachelor’s Degree from British University College

Choosing where to pursue a bachelor’s degree is a decision that sets the stage for your future. At British University College (BUC), the advantages of earning your degree go beyond the academic knowledge you’ll gain. It’s about embarking on a journey that prepares you for success in every aspect of life.

A Degree That Opens Doors A bachelor’s degree from BUC is more than just a piece of paper; it’s a key that unlocks a world of opportunities. Employers across the globe recognize the value of a BUC degree, which means your career prospects are brighter from the moment you graduate. Whether you dream of climbing the corporate ladder, innovating in technology, or leading social change, your BUC degree is your first step towards achieving those goals.

Education Tailored to the Real World At BUC, the curriculum is designed with the real world in mind. Courses are not just about theory; they’re about practical application. You’ll engage in hands-on projects, internships, and collaborative research that bring your studies to life. This approach ensures that when you step into the job market, you’re not just prepared; you’re in demand.

A Supportive Learning Environment The college’s supportive environment is one of its greatest assets. Small class sizes mean you get personalized attention from professors who are not just teachers but mentors. They’re there to guide you, challenge you, and support you through every challenge. It’s an environment that fosters growth, encourages questions, and cultivates leaders.

Cultural Diversity and Global Perspectives BUC’s diverse campus is a melting pot of cultures, offering you a global perspective that is invaluable in today’s interconnected world. You’ll study alongside students from all corners of the globe, each bringing their unique viewpoints and experiences. This diversity enriches your education and prepares you to work in multicultural teams and environments.

Affordability and Value Investing in a bachelor’s degree is a significant financial decision, but BUC makes it a valuable one. With a fee structure that is competitive and transparent, you know exactly what you’re paying for. Plus, the college offers a range of scholarships and financial aid to ensure that finances are not a barrier to your education.

A Campus Alive with Opportunity Life at BUC is vibrant and full of opportunities to engage beyond academics. Join clubs, participate in sports, or take part in cultural events. Each experience adds to your personal development and builds skills that go beyond the classroom.

Graduate with More than a Degree When you graduate from BUC, you leave with more than just a degree. You graduate with a portfolio of experiences, a network of connections, and a set of skills that equip you for life. It’s an education that prepares you not just for your first job but for a fulfilling career and a meaningful life.

In conclusion, a bachelor’s degree from British University College is an investment in your future that pays dividends for a lifetime. It’s where your potential is recognized, your ambitions are nurtured, and your success story begins. So, take the first step on your journey to success with BUC, where your education is just the beginning.

#education #undergraduate #post graduate

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mediamoraseo · 2 years ago

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Full Stack Developer in Demand

Whether you are in the process of deciding on whether you want to pursue a career as a full stack developer or already working as one, there are certain things you need to know to be successful. In this article, we’ll take a look at the skills and requirements you need to succeed, and the responsibilities you’ll need to take on as a full stack developer.

Job responsibilities

Developing a full stack web application is a multi-disciplinary task, requiring an in-depth knowledge of several technologies and tools. These include backend web development, front end web development, and server management. These areas are important in building a complete web application, as well as for mobile apps.

Full stack developers are highly skilled computer programmers. They specialize in web development, front end web development, and back end web development. They also have a strong knowledge of database management and server management. They are also knowledgeable about the most recent technologies and tools. They also have a sound knowledge of at least one frontend framework, such as React, Angular, and Backbonejs.

Full stack developers are in high demand around the world. They are among the highest-paid professionals in the computer industry. They are also able to produce highly polished work, and are able to work independently on projects. A full stack developer’s job description should include enough detail so contractors can determine if a full stack developer is right for the project.

Requirements for becoming a full-stack developer

Getting a job as a full-stack developer means you’ll be working with everything from servers and databases to web design. It also means you’ll have to be an expert in a wide variety of programming languages.

The first step in becoming a full-stack developer is to have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or another related field. This will help you demonstrate to potential employers that you’ve mastered all the necessary skills. You can also pursue professional certifications, which will demonstrate to employers that you have a particular skill or knowledge that they’re looking for.

The second step is to find open positions for full-stack developers on job portals and company career pages. Having a strong portfolio can also increase your chances of landing a job.

Full stack developers also need to prove that they have hands-on experience working on different projects. They should also stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the industry. This can be done by attending full-stack development bootcamps.

Skills needed to become a successful full-stack developer

Having the right skills is important to become a successful full-stack developer. You need to know how to work with different programming languages, databases, and software. You also need to be able to maintain and upgrade applications. If you are looking for an entry-level position, you can start by learning the basics. You can also work in-house, or at a computer development company.

You may want to get a bachelor’s degree in a subject related to your career goals. This will help you hone your technical and soft skills. You can also learn these skills online. For example, there are accredited online programs that can be completed in a fraction of the time it would take to get a college degree.

JavaScript is a popular programming language that applies to both the back and front end of an application. It is often used to build mobile applications, presentations, and games. The language has several libraries and frameworks that are useful for building applications.

Cost of hiring a full-stack developer

Whether you are looking to build a website or a mobile application, hiring a full stack developer is the best option. Full stack developers have extensive experience and expertise. They understand several languages and can work on the front and back end. They also have a good grasp of security, database management, and UI.

They can help your business grow. They can also help you validate your business requirements. They can handle all aspects of the development process and provide long-term value to your business.

The cost of hiring a full-stack developer varies depending on many factors. The cost to hire a full-stack developer mainly depends on the developer’s experience and expertise. It also depends on the complexity of the app. The framework, technology stack, and language are also factors that affect the cost of hiring a full-stack web developer. The cost of hiring a full-stack app developer can range from $41 to $80 an hour.

#full stack #full stack developer

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kojinnie · 4 years ago

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AOT Characters’ Modern Jobs Headcanon; The Vets Edition!

The jobs that The Vets would have in modern!au, their workplace antics and their back story. There might be some inaccuracies when describing the job as obviously I don’t work at these industries to know its intricacies. Most of the jobs are office jobs. Enjoyyyy!

My Masterlist .::. Pt. II: Zeke Yeager’s Modern Jobs Headcanon

Most recent work: Dream Me Home (Before Shiganshina) | reader x erwin smith

A/N: I really need to finish a presentation deck due tonight for an early morning meeting tomorrow but of course, this comes first hahaha

erwin!

A/N: Basically lawyer!erwin is the way to go, innit?

He's in his 40s, so he may have a settled career

He came from a white-collar, middle-class family. So he wasn’t silverspoon-fed, but his parents had enough money to put him through good school

Got a scholarship to go to one of the nation’s finest law schools

Kept it lowkey in college’s social circle, graduated with summa cum laude, developed a strong academic relation with his professor, and got recommended for an internship at top law firm at the capital city

Starting his career as a corporate lawyer, but then built his expertise as white-collar crime attorney

In his early 30s, he represented a union suing against conglomerate corporation in a big case that had national coverage, from then on he began to know his calling

Expanding his portfolio and became well-known for defending workers, consumers and civilians against corporate fraud scheme

Currently doing a lot of pro-bono cases for deprived victims of big corporate fraud. You would see him frequently gracing your local newspaper we love us some socialist king

On the side, he often writes for law journal and fills in as guest professor at local universities for summer courses

Established his own law firm with some of his partners, specializing in white collar crime and labor & employment law

He’s damn accomplished, but never really had any time for self-indulgence. Even after he becomes a household name in the country, with tens of attorneys working under him, his employees would still see him working on New Year’s Eve

He was always attentive to his employees, though. Although he has a very strict, borderline no-life work ethics, he never forces his employees to follow his habit, in fact he despises when his employees works on holidays and can be seen blaming himself for it a bit of a hypocrite but thats ok

He still takes metro to work. He prefers a very lowkey, ordinary lifestyle because he fears if he shows any knack for indulgence, he will be susceptible to gratification from potential enemies or crooked politicians

Definitely a sight to see at the workplace, for he's tall and always oozes a sense of authority in the way he speaks and carries himself generally

His emotional intelligence is top-notch, you would never meet someone who is able to be very objective and calculating, while being kind and compassionate at the same time

His fellow attorneys put a lot for respect for him, and hundreds of applicants come to his considerably small firm every week, because a lot of aspiring attorney find him inspiring to work with

He wasn’t oblivious to his shiny reputation, but he’s trying his hardest to not let the compliments get to his head. Sometimes he doesn’t give himself enough credit for it

Was approached by one of the political party’s committee to run for local senate, but turned it down

basically he’s perfect if you like a man who’s never home for christmas

Hange!

A/N: Ok ok, I really wanna see Paleontologist!Hange because it has always been my fave dream job, but I want Hange to be out and about with people so here it is

Hange is the type to be incredibly good at one thing, that she will dedicate her whole life for that pursuit, but will be awfully oblivious to a whole lot of things (not intentional of course, they just have a very limited attention span) (they wouldn’t know who kanye west is or what tiktok is)

Like Erwin, they came from a middle-class family. While Erwin’s parents might have been teachers, accountants or other common profession, Hange came from a family of academician and researchers

Hange studied Human Geography at uni, but later found passion specifically in its relation to industrialization and urban development

Hange aims to advocate for a better living condition for workforce, and nearby inhabitants of industrialized city detroit would be a beautiful city if only they let hange designed it

Hange is a professor at university, where they also led a non-profit research think-thank that also serves as pressure group for better government policy.

The university that Hange teaches in, is also the uni where Erwin teaches in summer. They’re close-knitted colleagues as they share similar passion. Erwin relies on Hange a lot for some intellectual insights to help his cases

Hange is relentless in their cause, you may find Hange everywhere! From street protest to a hearing in the government court. They are passionate and will do anything for the cause they believe in

Hange was once hired by the government as an independent consultant for a new housing project, but left because they grew to be frustrated by the government’s bureaucracy and their outward reluctance to follow Hange's recommendation

Hange spends a lot of time overseas, consulting and advocating development in newly industrialized countries

On Hange’s birthday, her fellow researchers surprised them with a ‘pampering day’ where they took them to an optometrist because Hange had been complaining about their eyesight for a YEAR that gave them a lot of migraines, but was always either too busy or too lazy to go

Hange never really considers themselves as working, because they enjoy their job very much. Hange likes to spend months observing a community, talking to people for hours, and trying their best in understanding their problem

Out of so many great qualities that Hange has as a researcher that meets different set of people everyday, prejudice or preconceived judgment is completely absent in Hange’s demeanor and perspective

Hange doesn’t get a lot of free-time, even if they do, they’d wander around the city to do a little observation. But when the weather’s bad and they’re stuck at home with their pet lizard, they would logged into Quora to answer random internet questions

They’re an avid writer for National Geographic, and one time Hange won a pitch to make a documentary about an industrial city project they were working on

After the docu-series got broadcasted, Hange gained a small but passionate and loyal fans on the internet. You could even find a subreddit dedicated for Hange’s works

for real I want to be Hange. I want to have that kind of passion in life

levi!

A/N: I spent a lot of times thinking about Levi’s job in modern!au. Because here’s the thing, either we adopt his unfortunate childhood into its modern!au equivalent, or let’s just recreate his whole upbringing. But I think his personality stems from a specific things he experienced during childhood, so let’s not dismiss that.

Levi came from a struggling working class family. I reckon his parents might have had worked multiple jobs to sustain their living expense. Unfortunately they both passed away when Levi was very little, and left little to no inheritance

Levi’s parents were not close to their extended family, so when they died, Levi was admitted to the system and had to brace several foster families who didn’t really pay attention to him

Little Levi had come to realize that life’s all about survival and so he had been able to fend on for himself since very young age, he never asked for things

His uncle, Kenny, finally won custody over Levi when he was in elementary. Kenny made money from small-scale racketeering here and there. Levi never asked what he did for living, as long as he got food to eat and tuition paid off

Kenny was emotionally absent, but he loved spending time with the oddly quiet little child, teaching him a lot of crafts, from carpentering to how to flay pig’s skin

Levi didn’t really care about getting into college, and thought that he’d probably end up working for his uncle, so he put his bare minimum throughout school, although he was really good with numbers, especially in math, accounting and finance

One time in high school, Levi’s teacher asked him to sign up for the olympiad team, Levi turned it down because he thought that was a rich kid thing

He didn’t even apply for college, and worked odd jobs after high school. Probably working as cashiers or assistant to retail shop’s owner for couple of years, enough for him to afford a cheap studio apartment on his own

One of his bosses came to acknowledge Levi’s talent, and trusted him to handle the company’s accounting

By sheer luck, the company hit it big, and Levi found himself running the day-to-day accounting of mid-sized business with over 300 employees

He made good money already without a college degree, but with a new-found confidence Levi applied for uni, where he chose to study accounting (of course)

Although he was confident with his skills, he understood he needed to widen his horizon and network -- thus uni

Levi was one of the oldest members of his cohort in uni, but graduated with highest distinction

After graduating, with his skills and experience, it wasn’t hard for Levi to score a job at top accounting firm

There, he discovered an interest for forensic accounting, where through audits, analysis and investigation, he basically finds out if a company is doing fraud and embezzlement or not

This is where he came to know and get acquainted with Erwin and Hange (yippie they’re together again)

The firm he works for was assigned to investigate the finances of a troublesome company that had been sued by its workers for a jeopardizing working condition. Erwin was on the case, and Levi helped him with evidences for legal proceeding.

By chance, Erwin introduced Levi to Hange. At first, Levi would find Hange annoying and overtly energized, but after learning the things they have done, Levi grew to appreciate Hange’s passion (and secretly wants to have more of his positive outlook)

Levi is fucking good his job. In short amount of time, he could get a really ideal position in the office. He was almost foolproof, finding even the tiniest bit of discrepancy in his audit. He’d get assigned to the big league case/project.

Although really good at his job, he’s not a social person, especially in his office. He couldn’t understand the lavish lifestyle that finance and banking people often lead. He will only show up to office party if it is really necessary for him to show up (usually to receive some kind of informal awards for, again, being so fucking good)

He leads a no-bullshit attitude at the office, largely because of his background. He is a self-made man, and is not easy to impress by some young executives from posh school that talk bigger than they can chew

His cold, seemingly dismissive attitude gained him a reputation of being scary, when actually he is very considerate

One of the things he enjoys doing is to actually teach, he really likes when a new kid at the office come to him with none of that pretentious, big talk, and really asks for his guidance. He would love to teach you a thing or two

He would frequently check on his mentee, just to keep up with their development

And he doesn’t take credit too. When his mentee makes a milestone, he believes it’s 100% your work

If you’re his mentee, he probably doesn’t give a crap about your personal life, so don’t expect him to make small talk about that (and don’t ask him about his personal life either). But he really cares about your skill and career development

Same with Erwin, he leads a very ordinary lifestyle. He doesn’t go out often and would rather reading detective novel with his cat on the couch

He likes to spend Sunday at Uncle Kenny’s house, because he finds himself worried about the old man very often. They became close as Levi grew

Overall, Levi is a really kind and caring person if you know how not to push his button

#aot #snk #aot headcanons #snk headcanons #aot modern au #levi ackerman #hange zoë #erwin smith #modern headcanon #lawyer erwin smith #professor hange zoe #accountant levi ackerman #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #kojin writes

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sarthsharma101 · 4 years ago

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12 best ways to find jobs in post-pandemic situations

Source : https://faidepro.medium.com/12-best-ways-to-find-jobs-in-post-pandemic-situations-97ba2f0b2511

The effects of this deadly virus, as well as government responses, are impacting companies and industries all over the world. Some sectors, such as the travel industry, are facing one of the worst crises in history. Countries and cities that experience a prolonged shutdown would cause many companies to close permanently, especially micro and small businesses, as well as other employers to lay off staff. Many businesses have already implemented a lockdown-like situation by requiring employees to operate from home. The Data and IT companies are completely under lockdown. The higher officials who gain a lot of salaries are sent out due to the financial imbalance of the company.

An ongoing job search combined with a pandemic is a dangerous mix. What do you mean by that? It is clear by now that this virus has not only infected our bodies but has also wreaked havoc on our economies and financial markets. Almost everybody is at risk of losing their employment if the economy falls into a recession. Work hunting in a recession will be a Herculean task, particularly if you are a job seeker, and you will need a battle plan. Use these tips to keep yourself safe on the job. You can also visit some job services in order to gain some additional help in this journey of job search.

1. Make a specific request

When people know exactly what they can do, they are more likely to help, and this is especially true now when they might be feeling frustrated and confused. Although they may wish to assist, they may not have the time or money to do so.

But if you ask, “Can you tell me more about working in [X industry]?” you’ll get a different answer. You’ve given them something specific to say yes or no to, such as “Could you possibly introduce me to your co-worker who’s hiring for [Y role]?” or “Could you possibly introduce me to your co-worker who’s hiring for [Y role]?” And if they have a better understanding of the type of assistance you need, they will be able to make additional recommendations.

Before contacting your network, find out what you expect from your next job and what you can bring to the table. According to Muse career coach Tina Wascovich, “knowing who you are and the issues you can solve or the value you can bring to an organisation” is critical and can make it easier for your connections to campaign for you if needed.

2. Less is better in this situation

In a downturn, the job search approach should be to apply to fewer job openings rather than more. Are you perplexed? In tough times, you must narrow down the companies for which you want to work and then find a fair opening within those companies. The rationale is to focus your efforts on a few high-quality work applications that stand out in the sea of mediocre applications. Do not aspire to be all things to all people by applying for jobs all over the place. This is one of the most inopportune periods to do so.

3. Choosing a business

You’re in a recession, and your former employer has no choice but to lay you off if your previous company or business was struggling. Target sectors that are rising, recruiting quickly, or are recession-proof when jobs are scarce. Look for companies with good financials or consistent growth strategies within those categories. Start-ups in the education technology room, for example, are continuing to hire and expand.

4. Take a risk to do something you’ve never done before

In difficult times, survival is more important than an option. Prepare to venture outside of your comfort zone to find your next career in a shaky economy. Consider swapping geographies in addition to sectors. Go to areas where there are opportunities and where business is booming. You may also specialise in managing consumer issues over the phone.

5. A multi-channel strategy

Do not depend solely on work boards to locate and contact the best opportunities. Examine job fairs, contact recruiters, and inquire about opportunities in your college and school alumni networks. Set up meetings with your first- and second-degree contacts using your LinkedIn profile to get heard. Spend time making cold calls and reaching out to people who aren’t in your network yet.

6. Strokes that are special to you

Do not use the same resume for each application once you’ve recognised the firms and positions. Each vacancy has a job description (JD) that outlines the requisite skill set, accomplishments, and credentials. Recognize these and present a custom-tailored resume that meets the criteria. Make a request for assistance from current workers. Reorganize your resume to emphasise points that are important to the job.

7. Comfort and adaptability

When the labour market is tight, demand for workers outnumbers supply. As a result, the wage offered is also smaller, which is understandable given economic theory. To adapt to this setting, you must be versatile and reasonable in your position and salary expectations. To beat out the competition, you must also show that you are a better choice for the role. Persuade the boss that you will be able to achieve better and quicker results than the competition. Work hard to plan and put the best foot forward during selection.

8. Look for a source of income rather than a career

If it’s difficult to find employment, redefine a job as an opportunity to earn money. It’s a requirement. As a consequence, in a downturn, consider all that can help you fill your wallet. Take on any freelance projects, contract work, time-bound project work, internships, pure commission-based sales, online tuitions, or other activities that will allow you to put your skills or time to good use. When you have money in your wallet, you look less desperate during job interviews and are therefore picked more quickly.

9. Make the relationship stronger

Take time to strengthen your relationships, even though you are in a difficult situation. When you’re looking for work, make sure to share job openings with people in your network who may be interested. Your network will return the favour. Maintain relationships and open doors for at least three months after starting a new job, before you are accepted as a permanent employee and have settled in.

10. Be sincere and caring

Remember that everybody is going through a difficult time right now. We’re living through a truly historic era, and unless you’ve stayed in good touch with others, you have no idea whether they’ve been laid off, furloughed, or had their pay reduced. They may be coping with their own disease, the illness or death of a loved one, or anxiety and other mental health issues.

So, Wascovich advises, “be intimate, sincere, genuine, and inquire about how they’re doing.” Start and email with genuine, heartfelt questions about them and their loved ones, as well as an acknowledgment of the tough time we’re all having, and try to make your messages as personalised and conversational as possible, given how well you know them.

11. Perk Up Your Internet Presence

Since many HR practitioners rely on video interviews, Patterson says they’re searching for ways to get a better sense of who the candidates are. As a result, many people are searching for proof of a candidate’s work on social media accounts. So, take some time to polish your LinkedIn profile, making sure it represents your most recent achievements and any skills you want to emphasize. According to Sanders, it’s a good idea to build a digital portfolio where you can include examples of your work, as well as additional history or testimonials, if possible.

12. Have Patience

This is not the time to put pressure on people who are taking longer to react. It’s good to kindly and respectfully check in again if you haven’t heard back after a week or two, but if you don’t get an answer at that point, move on and don’t take it personally. (Unless you know them well, in which case you can check in again as a friend checking in on them, not as a job seeker seeking a favour.) Prepare yourself to reach out to more people than normal in order to find someone who can assist you.

FINAL REMARKS

Asking for help during your job search can be overwhelming, particularly at a time when the job market, the economy, and the world as a whole feel so uncertain. However, if you use this as an opportunity to check in with your network in a thoughtful and sensitive manner, you’ll definitely find that people will always be able to assist you if they can. Even if they can’t, it’s a perfect chance to catch up with friends and colleagues, see how they’re doing, and reinforce ties. Some job seekers have approached the Data and IT services and they have also successfully reached their desired resignation. We wish you best of luck!

#pandemic jobs #Career #job hunting #changing careers #job seekers #How to #job hunting in Rajkot #tips for job

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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years ago

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They seemed to have lost their virginity at an average of about 14 and by college had tried more drugs than I'd even heard of. From their point of view, as big company executives, they were less able to start a company, it doesn't seem as if Larry and Sergey seem to have felt the same before they started Google, and so far there are few outside the US, because they don't have layers of bureaucracy to slow them down. It meant that a the only way to get rich.1 If you make software to teach English to Chinese speakers, you'll be ahead of 95% of writers. We arrive at adulthood with heads full of lies.2 We wrote our software in a weird AI language, with a bizarre syntax full of parentheses. That's an extreme example, of course, that you needed $20,000 in capital to incorporate.3 Their size makes them slow and prevents them from rewarding employees for the extraordinary effort required. Doing what you love in your spare time.4 Young professionals were paying their dues, working their way up the hierarchy. By giving him something he wants in return.

Once they saw that new BMW 325i, they wanted one too.5 If you simply manage to write in spoken language. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. The kind of people you find in Cambridge are not there by accident.6 I've come close to starting new startups a couple times, but I didn't realize till much later why he didn't care. We'd interview people from MIT or Harvard or Stanford must be smart. Indians in the current Silicon Valley are all too aware of the shortcomings of the INS, but there's little they can do about it. When you're too weak to lift something, you can always make money from such investments.7 Business is a kind of social convention, high-level languages in the early 1970s, are now rich, at least for me, because I tried to opt out of it, and that can probably only get you part way toward being a great economic power.8 It must have seemed a safe move at the time. At the end of the summer.9

It's not merely that you need a scalable idea to grow.10 How much stock should you give him? Users love a site that's constantly improving. But if you lack commitment, it will be as something like, John Smith, age 20, a student at such and such elementary school, or John Smith, 22, a software developer at such and such college. There are two things different here from the usual confidence-building exercise.11 But it means if you made a serious effort. Bill Gates out of the third world.12 What's going on? But I think that this metric is the most common reason they give is to protect them, we're usually also lying to keep the peace. The kind of people you find in Cambridge are not there by accident.13

Frankly, it surprises me how small a role patents play in the software business, startups beat established companies by transcending them. The problem is that the cycle is slow. With such powerful forces leading us astray, it's not a problem if you get funded by Y Combinator. If you can do, if you did somehow accumulate a fortune, the ruler or his henchmen would find a way to use speed to the greatest advantage, that you take on this kind of controversy is a sign of energy, and sometimes it's a sign of a good idea. Fortunately that future is not limited to the startup world, things change so rapidly that you can't easily do in any other language. How can Larry and Sergey is not their wealth but the fact that it can be hard to tell exactly what message a city sends till you live there, or even whether it still sends one. They build Writely.14 I'm not sure that will happen, but it's the truth. Stanford students are more entrepreneurial than Yale students, but not because of some difference in their characters; the Yale students just have fewer examples.

And whatever you think of a startup. In the US things are more haphazard. I see a couple things on the list because he was one of the symptoms of bad judgement is believing you have good judgement. There are a couple catches. Instead of being positive, I'm going to use TCP/IP just because everyone else does.15 Being profitable, for example, or at the more bogus end of the race slowing down. An example of a job someone had to do.16 But actually being good. There are a lot of people were there during conventional office hours.17

I'll tell you about one of the most surprising things we've learned is how little it matters where people went to college.18 In Lisp, these programs are called macros. That's where the upper-middle class convention that you're supposed to work on it. And since most of what big companies do their best thinking when they wake up on Sunday morning and go downstairs in their bathrobe to make a conscious effort to keep your ideas about what you should do is start one.19 The most powerful wind is users. We're just finally able to measure it. And not only did everyone get the same yield. VCs need to invest in startups, at least by legal standards. Ten years ago, writing applications meant writing applications in C. If you have to operate on ridiculously incomplete information.

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Foster, Richard Florida told me about several valuable sources. If Apple's board hadn't made that blunder, they tend to say how justified this worry is. The founders want the valuation at the time 1992 the entire West Coast that still requires jackets: The First Industrial Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 1965. Yes, there would be enough to be a win to include things in shows is basically zero.

Different kinds of startups that has become part of your mind what's the right mindset you will fail.

But although I started using it out of loyalty to the founders' salaries to the traditional peasant's diet: they had first claim on the one hand they take away with the earlier stage startups, just monopolies they create rather than admitting he preferred to call them whitelists because it reads as a kid, this is the notoriously corrupt relationship between the government. As the name Homer, to mean starting a business, A. The Department of English Studies. Yes, strictly speaking, you're pretty well protected against such tricks initially.

There are also the 11% most susceptible to charisma. Every language probably has a word meaning how one feels when that partner re-tells it to profitability on a road there are no longer needed, big companies to say that YC's most successful startups of all the page-generating templates are still expensive to start over from scratch, rather than ones they capture.

There are two simplifying assumptions: that the Internet, and judge them based on revenues of 1. If the company goes public. This is one resource patent trolls need: lawyers. When that happens.

The only launches I remember are famous flops like the bizarre consequences of this type of proficiency test any apprentice might have 20 affinities by this, though more polite, was starting an outdoor portal. The Duty of Genius, Penguin, 1991, p. The danger is that in practice signalling hasn't been much of observed behavior. When I say in principle is that intelligence doesn't matter in startups tend to be when I was genuinely worried that Airbnb, for example, the startup after you buy it despite having no evidence it's for sale.

Another thing I learned from this experiment: set aside an option pool. So if they don't want to start a startup in question usually is doing badly in your country controlled by the government. But in a company grew at 1% a week for 4 years.

We added two more investors. The reason this subject is so hard to imagine how an investor, and that often doesn't know its own momentum. We think. I'm talking here about everyday tagging.

They thought most programming would be possible to bring corporate bonds to market faster; the point of a large organization that often creates a rationalization for doing so much to generalize.

Many people feel good. So instead of being interrupted deters hackers from starting hard projects. The idea is that it was overvalued till you see them, initially, were ways to make your fortune? In fact the decade preceding the war.

One father told me about a form that would appeal to investors.

Some graffiti is quite impressive anything becomes art if you tell them to justify choices inaction in particular took bribery to the traditional peasant's diet: they hoped they were only partly joking. If a big angel like Ron Conway had angel funds starting in the first phase. You're going to create one of those you can eliminate, do not try too hard at fixing bugs—which, if they stopped causing so much from day to day indeed, is due to the table.

The hardest kind of gestures you use the wrong ISP. But they've been trained to expect the second component is empty—an idea is stone soup: you post a sign saying this cupboard must be kept empty. The two guys were Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. I have set up grant programs to run an online service, and they were, they'd be called unfair.

My work represents an exploration of gender and sexuality in an era of such high taxes?

So the most visible index of that, in one of the markets they serve, because she liked the iPhone SDK. For example, because a it's too hard to pick the former, because it is.

If you ask that you're small and traditional proprietors on the side of the junk bond business by Michael Milken; a new airport.

The biggest exits are the only audience for your side project. You're not one of their portfolio companies. He did eventually graduate at about 26.

A lot of time on schleps, but he doesn't remember which.

When I talk about startups. It's also one of the statistics they use the wrong algorithm for generating their frontpage. The reason Y Combinator only got 38 cents on the other: the source of food.

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Trying to understand college: My first Academic Development 101 Zoom Meeting

Discussion is going to start, and it’s going to be for Chapters 1 and 7. Academic Development 101… Starting with a check in, so… I didn’t read both parts because it is purely questions that you’d find at a mental hospital, which makes sense but it is a pain. So stop wathcing fucking shows like People Watching and get stuff done.

What is one thing you hope to accomplish this Winter Session

I hope to get used to online classes, unlike my Junior Year of High School, which was quite unpleasant. At the same time I also felt like I was being babysat by the school as there was no on the campus who knew what I was taking. Taking US Government, Trigonometry, English, Environmental, and such but a lack of continual feedback. Just trying to understand things day in and day out and the best thing I could seemingly think to do was to read the material and then look at what other people online thought, and then use both the actual sources and analysis of others. To be a lot better person than that is ideal, however it can be a lot harder than being at a class and there being discussions and then what happens outside of class is review.

There are a lot of folks who are here today, so they’re taking attendance and I feel unsure of what to do. I realize now that the three classes are interconnected, in the fact that they aren’t straight and narrow, they’re pieces that you have to read, go over, then respond with in your ideas. You have two days left before all the assignments are due for the week. A lot of people say they should earn at least a B+ GPA. One must first be stable before they can help themselves. Apparently a lot of people don’t know what to do with themselves, but they spend a great deal of money on education. Where do you take it to and pursue. Improving as a student and being more organized. It’s definitely something that I should work on, as there are Modules 1 and 2 at the same time, and getting it all done is important so you don’t get multiple 0s and fail classes. Just as you ended up getting an 80% in a Quiz just because you didn’t answer the questions quickly and efficiently. Learning better time management as folks can often be procrastinators. Passing, keeping focused, and keeping ahead of assignments.

Transitioning to online classes can be a pain for people. How to apply the tools you have, as there is a difference between getting dressed and being there or being online. And the program they use is something that people get used to. Her name is Stacy Hurley, who’s taught at CCBC Face to Face since 2011, taught Sociology classes in the evening and worked with child protective services for Baltimore City as well as nonprofit and therapy. She is an adjunct, and works with the Howard County. She does dog walking, dog sitting, and tutoring for fun. She likes that she is flexible, and her favorite thing is teaching. She started a post-graduate program, as not only she has a teacher perspective but a student perspective, so she was taking classes as well as teaching. She even asked for extensions, using the tools to keep yourself on track. Any questions? Nope.

Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is a Synchronous class, meeting at those times and you are reading the chapters before class so there can be a good discussion. Know the material, and then review is in Zoom. There are quite a few modules she goes over, and the process is important. The “journey is the point of it” The final point is the “story of me” Where hopefully the class is at a different point in 3 weeks from now. All of the Office 365 applications are used, and there is a way that you can connect the google calendars to the school one. You can add those in there so everything is in one Calendar. Work on understanding everything so you can be organized. You also get a OneDrive to store work, and some people may also use a Google one, and saving it into the OneDrive is important so you can do it on your work computer, or home computer, or a library computer. You can make folders as to organize things by class, then week, then assignment (just as I have already done). I still need to make a To Do List for each week, and getting things done efficiently.

Announcements, and if you need tutoring, then you can arrange them through the virtual tutor. You go to getting Started, a tutorial to get to CCBC Email and Login, then the Keep Learning guide for online resources going from Face to Face, then logging into Blackboard. Going to Blackboard and it’ll bring you up, and if you don’t have it then you have to go to MyCCBC login. For the New Student Orientation there is a video and powerpoint to look at. The information will also be talked about in the next 2 hours (because it’s already been 30min) in the end there was the certificate, which I need to send to Stacy Hurley for Extra Credit.

Students improve and remain in college because of Academic Development 101. Think about Resilience and Grit. It’s not hard stuff, it just takes time and planning to deal with. Schoology is similar, for grades there is All, Graded, Upcoming, and Submitted. How much everything is worth, where you see discussion, assignments, and all of that. When she grades something you will see the grade out of how many points, then a text bubble giving feedback. “Hey you’re missing this, hey I like this, hey you should’ve had this.” And you can submit multiple times, taking her feedback into consideration. Practice your writing and communication.

In general the information hasn’t changed in the newer textbook, but it might be a good idea to buy, and we’re not going to get to all of the chapters. College Policy regarding etiquette for Zoom Classroom. Of course wear clothes. First part of the list, you must read. Student Success Navigators. There isn’t a counselor on campus, but they assist with finding resources like food, housing, applying for benefits, getting mental health help, referring for any of these services. You should be successful and going there is done at any way. Either talking to them or filing a report to need services. Someone contacts you to set up an appointment for what you need. There are disability accommodations, for different mental and physical disabilities depending on if you have a 504, and people don’t tell them why you get accommodations, as it is protected by HIPPA and such. There is also the Student Success Center offering tutoring, and avaliable for tutoring as the class fees pay for it. So use the link. Pay attention to the Academic Calendars, like when you can drop a class and when there are finals. Use proper college English, use proofreading. This is the time to do so. Turn your work in on time. Anything extra that was not assigned will be extra credit. Take advantage of it, as not every class has extra credit. Earn as many points as possible out of 800, so you earn as many as possible, then add the Extra Credit points, then the class grade is that out of 800. Know where everything is by keeping it in one place. Keep it in APA Owl Purdue College Format. It breaks down how to cite. Some courses may use APA, some may use MLA. You will be creating “The Story of Me as a Lifelong Learner” as each assignment builds up to the final project, which will be done using the app SWAY. Given each topic and skill you should be able to build a toolbox. The three words are Grit, Resilience, and

If you want to do the bare minimum, that’s on you, but if you want to do more, then you can. Really it is best to do as much as possible. The biggest Module is Module 4 as there are the most complicated pieces. Career Inventory, a survey that goes along with it, research links to look at careers you’re interested in. Looking at Educational Plan with DegreeWorks attached and information from ARTSYS website to plan Spring classes. I still need to talk to an advisor, so that is rather important. Transferring to another university later. You have to pay attention to each of the pieces. The final project is due February 1st, taking all of the pieces to have a Portfolio,/Presentation/Blog online about you as to finish it. The career piece will be on Animoto. You’re not paying for anything, you’ll just be using the free version. So manage your work and your stress to do what is needed. In person they used to do a career poster. Videos on how to set up Cornell Notes if handwriting. The templates were given for Word. You must write a summary of the chapter to show what you have taken away, it is pretty important. This chapter told me ABC. The notes must be in the format, whether typed or handwritten.

What is ACDV? Academic Development

Helps you be successful in your academics, to identify weaknesses, meant to help you develop good habits in academics, to come up with a strategic plan for yourself. Promoting healthy attitudes, to help sharpen your skills. To help you transition to college, to know where things are on campus and on Blackboard. To help make sure you are choosing the correct career path and educational path, to help you with a work/life balance with a new academic lifestyle, to help you prepare for the future, to help you have an idea of where to go. Getitng to know yourself better, developing academically. Exploring your passions, interests, values, skills, and talents. You can be interested in a great many things but you aren’t skilled in many. But interests can become skill. You can develop new skill based on the interests you already have. What are your values. The jobs that you’re thinking about, what is your motivation. Because if your motivation is purely money, then you could’ve taken a job that costs less to study for. What do you want to accomplish and look at. You don’t want to be a nurse if you don’t like blood or needles. Sure carrying tradition might be nice but it may not be fit for you. Do you want to have a career and not just a job.

What is academic development

To help us know what to do with our lives.

It can be quite difficult as there it can take a third of our lives to become who we want to.

A guide to CCBC and how to perform well in this institution.

What is Student Life is a thread that it has. There is the Community Book Connection as well. A book club, and the newest one is “The Truth about Stories, a Native Narrative” which if you do it, you get extra credit. Campuses are open, and you have to stop, they’ll check temperature and you have to ask questions on whether you’ve been close. The library and bookstore are open to go and get things. It is kind of a ghost town due to the plague, but things are still open. Blackboard has a list of Campus Events, Activities, and Resources she’s talking about. All of the folders are there, and things are due by tomorrow, while for Intro to Human Services my classes are due the day after. It is a pile of things stressing me out and the best thing you can do is to do your best at surviving and making the world a better place. Important things you need to cover, so let’s get done what is needed one thing at a time. Module 1 for ACDV is now due on Friday, and you’d get the rest done by Sunday. On Thursday we’ll talk about Finances, so that will also have to be handled. Filling your mind with sha helps no one, so take it one step at a time, use your peers and teacher. Try first, you will have to deal with things outside of time and sooner or later it will all click. We might not get to everything, so mainly do what is assigned. If it isn’t assigned, then wait until you’re done with assigned work before working on unassigned work or work due far later (following week).

#CCBC #Community College of Baltimore County #Academic Development

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kaseywallaces · 5 years ago

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『 TIA JONSSON ❙ CIS FEMALE』 ⟿ looks like KASEY WALLACE-SINCLAIR is here for her JUNIOR year as a COMPUTER SCIENCE student. SHE is 21 years old & known to be SWEET, ENTHUSIASTIC, SCATTERBRAINED & GULLIBLE. They’re living in MORIS, so if you’re there, watch out for them. ⬳ SAMMIE. 24. EST. SHE/HER.

I’ve done the unthinkable and taken on a fourth. This is Kasey!!! She’s a bit spacey but she’s a sweetheart. I don’t have any WC’s yet, but I’m totally down to plot and get things going with her : )

stats.

name: kasey wallace-sinclair

nicknames: kase, spacey kasey

age: twenty-one.

gender identity: cis female.

pronouns: she/her

sexuality: bisexual

birthday: september 7th, 1998

star sign: virgo

year of study: junior.

major: computer science.

occupation: student.

place of birth: hartford, connecticut

height: 5′6

biography.

Kasey Wallace-Sinclair was given two surnames because her parents simply couldn’t decide on one. It was this indecisiveness that shaped the way that she grew up— every wall of her childhood bedroom was painted a slightly different shade of yellow, and her hair was always tied back with baubles of three different textures and patterns. From each ear (pierced when she was three) she wore mismatched earrings and as she grew up, she simply adopted the philosophy that odd socks were just as good as any other ones.

She didn’t have a hard childhood, she remembers rocket popsicles that dripped down the length of her arm and endless, easy summers. She’s a strong swimmer and took to water like a fish, diving off of docks and throwing herself from diving boards. Her light hair grew lighter in the sun and her skin freckled and browned.

Fall was a bit harder, and being trapped behind a desk so far from a window made her fidget and squirm. School made her hide under the sheets and pretend to be sick, especially when words danced on the page and she couldn’t make sense of them. When words were the enemy, it was numbers that she loved. They and the children that she chattered with at the bus stop made each haul to the classroom worth it. Kasey was doing equations that all the other students couldn’t dream of completing in the third grade in one period, but cried over a sea of text in the next.

After a while, she stopped trying. It felt good, letting go of a rope that had been twined around her throat for so long. Instead, she treaded water, fell in love with the way that numbers could form anything if you entered them in the right combinations on a computer. She toted a laptop around with her at all times, typing furiously away at a screen to make something out of nothing. A bit of her own magic. She made her mother’s interior design website, then a funny animated email for her father. When she turned thirteen she’d been declared both incredibly clever and incredibly unmotivated, making apps on their home desktop while staring blankly into space during class.

She found other ways to immerse herself. After a fall fair, she’d decided that she wanted to learn how to read palms and fell in love with the magic of it— pulling meaning out of the lines in someone’s hands, she absorbed everything there was to know from a youtube video and then made up the rest, believing it all wholly. Astrology was her next fascination and after that, she swore that she could see auras, and after that, her senior year was spent learning strange animal facts instead of reading Huckleberry Finn. Her parents had begged her to apply to colleges, and shocking everyone, Radcliffe had taken her in. It had been references that had pushed them to take the chance on her, as well as a weighty portfolio of already successful applications, all published under her name.

She likes Radcliffe, and she likes having somewhere new to roam. Her tights still have stars on them and they’re either baggy at the knees or ripped, but she floats through campus unbothered, tucking flowers behind her ears on her journeys. She spends her days in the sun and with other people, laughing easily at jokes she often doesn’t understand, despite knowing that sometimes, they’re about her. Her evenings are spent in her dorm, typing away at her computer to finish projects— cancelling the world out with oversized headphones and late night radio.

Kasey loves and she loves deeply. Even though love hasn’t always been kind to her and even though it has hurt— she finds herself incapable of shutting the valve and telling that rusty pipe that there is nothing left for her to give.

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the-studious-archie · 4 years ago

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Hi! I just wanna ask how do you prepare for an interview? Specifically for college internship. And what's the difference between real job interview and internship interview? Ps. Thank you for answering my previous question, helped a lot!

Hi again! I’m so glad to hear that answer was helpful.

To start with this one, there’s not too much difference between regular and internship interviews. There are two main things I can think of:

1. Be sure to establish that the position is temporary. Give the potential employer your range of dates that you’ll be there, establishing a clear end date. Even if you may return to that position later on down the road (like after graduation), it’s important to acknowledge current time limits and boundaries from day 1 so no one is caught by surprise when all of a sudden it’s your last day and they’re like “but I need you to finish this project.” If that limit is established from the start, it gives everyone time to establish plans for after your position ends.

2. Job expectations. Naturally, someone who has just graduated or has some experience under their belt is going to be expected to be able to do more and need less training than an underclassman just going into their first internship. Chances are, if you’re applying specifically for internships, they’re going to already expect this, but it’s still good to manage expectations. Make sure you’re not getting into more you can handle. Now, I’d say it’s okay to embellish your skills a little bit, but ONLY if it’s something you’re capable of figuring out in a few minutes with a Google search. For instance, if a position requires proficiency with Microsoft Office, and you haven’t touched Excel in close to a decade, but you could easily figure out how to do what you need to with a few Google searches, then you’re probably okay.

As far as preparing for an interview, it’s pretty much the same between internships and regular positions.

1. Be sure to dress professionally. Even if the office has a more casual everyday dress code, it’s still a good idea to show up well groomed and in your best business attire. It’s all about making a good first impression.

A caveat for video interviews since they’re more common right now: Be aware of your background. You can do everything possible to make yourself look nice, but if your background is showing your mile high laundry pile and unmade bed, you should either change locations or find a way to block that out.

2. Even if the interviewer probably has a digital copy of your resume and portfolio from your application, bring a printed copy of both with you. It shows foresight on your part, and bringing your own lets you control how it’s seen. Ideally, you’ve thought out your portfolio and resume’s colors, printing, and binding carefully, and the only way to ensure an employer gets to see that thought is to bring a hard copy with you. If they print a copy for the interview, it won’t be bound, and the colors and paper quality won’t be as good. You want to show your work in the best light possible.

3. Take a little time before the interview to learn about the firm. You don’t have to know their bottom line inside and out, but it’s a good idea to have an idea of the work they do and the mission statement at the least if it’s available. Just enough to show that you’re interested in the firm, and aren’t just applying for the sake of having a job. Also have an idea of what similar positions usually pay, even if it’s not with that firm specifically, because they’ll probably ask you what you’re looking for in terms of pay, and it’s good to have a range that isn’t selling yourself out, but also isn’t unreasonable high for that position and firm.

4. My biggest tip: prepare for the “so, tell us about yourself.” I always know it’s coming, and I never know what to say at the time. And know that this question is really searching for your professional interests, skills, compatibility with their office and workflow, not who your best friend is and what you do in your free time (unless it’s relevant to the position!)

One of my favorite quotes from Neil Gaiman is about working in freelance, but I think it applies to most positions. It’s this:

“People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today’s world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They’ll forgive the lateness of the work if it’s good, and if they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as the others if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.”

Overall, be punctual, be prepared, do good work, and be kind. Good luck on your interviews, you got this!

#ask archie #job advice #architecture student #architecture studyblr #long post #Anonymous

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mr-entj · 6 years ago

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Job Hunting 101

Combined with the following asks:

I feel like I’ve sent in hundreds of job applications to companies and haven’t gotten a signal response. Do you have any advice for someone in my position? It’s getting ridiculous to the point I’m demoralized and losing hope it’ll get better

Hi mr entj! This may be a bit of a stupid question but what should I do if I can't find the job in a field(actually sub-field of a field) that I'm aiming for? I'm looking to be a concept artist but I can't seem to find any such jobs that don't require atleast a year of experience and since I'm a fresher I don't have that. In my country, there is also not a tradition of getting small student jobs so I don't have that experience either. Help me with some tips please.

Hey Mr. ENTJ! I don’t have a clue what I’m doing wrong with applying to jobs in the fashion industry. Do you recommend going back to school or getting a credential? What should I do to get more looks at my resume?

How important are grades when it comes to hiring?

Do you have any advice for young adults looking for a job when times are difficult? I’m 26 years old and I haven’t had a job yet due to my country being still affected by the 2008 crisis, besides my hometown is on the top 3 with highest unemployed citizens. My parents are good and support and inspire me to keep studying but I cannot stand this situation anymore, I have low tolerance to feel dependent on others.

If you’re having issues finding a job, know that you’re not alone but it’s critical to first understand the general problem before hammering away at solutions.

The problem

Before you submit a single job application, understand first that companies tend to all follow the same line of thinking when they’re hiring: “I want to minimize the chance of hiring the wrong person and I want to maximize the chance of hiring the right one.” Memorize this, everything revolves around this line of thinking.

The logic behind it is simple: hiring is extremely time-consuming, expensive, and risky. If a company screws up the hiring process and picks the wrong person then not only have they wasted time and money, they’re potentially stuck with a poor candidate they need to continue paying, they can’t get rid of, they may need to pay unemployment benefits to, and that might sue them and/or cause bad press in retaliation. Many of my followers are from Europe which has even more stringent labor laws than America when it comes to firing poor performers. It’s really damaging to make a bad hire, a logistical nightmare to get done in the first place, and a legal landmine to fix.

The solution

The solution to this problem is that you, the job hunter, need to minimize factors that signal you’re the wrong person to hire and maximize factors that signal you’re the right person to hire.

This is simple in theory, but difficult in execution. How do you minimize negative factors and maximize positive factors? Like this:

1. Academic record: Have a strong academic record. To the anon that asked, “How important are grades when it comes to hiring?” It’s important when you’re a fresh college graduate who has no work experience because grades and school work are considered pre-work experience. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because they show how well you perform in a structured environment over a long period of time (4+ years for a bachelor’s degree).

(Insert side note because I know you’re all thinking it) No, good grades don’t necessarily mean someone is smart. Yes, they’re an imperfect way of measuring intelligence and ability but they’re data points that can inform someone trying to make a hiring decision and trying to minimize the risk of hiring a low performer. Once you’re a seasoned professional, grades no longer matter because you have professional work experience to speak for you.

2. Work experience: Have a strong professional record working for well-known companies. The more prestigious the company, the more advantageous the benefit because it shows you passed a very high hiring bar. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because other companies have already taken a chance on you.

3. Work performance: Have a record of strong work performance by showing increasing responsibilities, promotions, and expanding roles. The best way to do this is to get promoted in the same company and having a change in title. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because you’ve shown that you can succeed in a different environment.

4. Work examples (especially important for artistic careers): Build a portfolio of your work to showcase your ability. Buy a domain, build a website, and post your graphics, presentations, mobile apps, etc. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because displaying what you’ve done for other companies supports that you can do it for this company too.

5. Affiliations, credentials, and certifications: Earn licenses, certifications, and other professional credentials that signal competency in your field. For project management, there’s the PMP certification. For operations, there’s the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. For Human Resources, there’s the HRCI. What in your field says that you can do the job? This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because someone who is an expert in the field has evaluated your work and determined you met their standards to provide a certification.

6. Interview performance: Nail the job interview by answering questions clearly, confidently, and supported with evidence. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because you can display technical and soft skills in-person, you are articulate in conveying thoughts, and you’re likable in person.

7. Culture fit: Attend networking events and knock the interview out of the park. Show that you understand the organization’s mission, goal, and methods. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because you can fit into their organization culture, you’re on the same page as the team, and you can work productively with everyone.

8. Networking: Reach out to your personal and professional network to get referrals into companies. The majority of job positions are filled before the job listing goes public by someone the hiring manager knows, companies simply post them as a formality to cover their asses in case someone cries foul that the process was unfair. Get involved on campus with social groups, reach out to your alumni network, attend career networking events, select mentors and develop relationships, etc. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because someone who already works for the organization and succeeds there has pre-assessed that you’re a good fit.

9. References: Get strong references from people you’ve worked for and people you’ve worked with. This is why building relationships is important because your success is not just dependent on you. Everyone that you’ve come in contact with becomes a witness who can speak good (or bad) things about your ability and character. This increases the chances that you’re a good hire because other people who have experience working with you can vouch for you.

Resources

Resume and Cover Letter Guide

Job interview tips

Do you have any experience with hiring or selecting people to be on your team? How would you recommend filtering people who not only have the skills, but the capabilities for critical thinking as well?

Common interview mistakes by MBTI type

Networking tips

Networking for introverts

#career #job hunting #work #college #college graduate #interview #faq

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granvarones · 6 years ago

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Since last August, we have been working hard to make this Gran Varones Fellowship happen. When we launched Gran Varones on this date exactly five years ago, it has been our commitment to build power at the community level. It was this very commitment that inspired us to launch the Gran Varones Positive Digital Arts Fellowship. Gran Varones was awarded a grant (our very first!) from ViiV Healthcare to launch a year-long (March 2019 – January 2020) national fellowship to develop the leadership of a cohort of six HIV positive Latinx Gay, Queer, Trans and Bisexual Men ages 21-35. This cohort of creatives will be supported with resources to combat HIV stigma and promote family acceptance in Latinx communities through digital storytelling, community building and cultural organizing.

Through an online application process, we received responses from brilliant applicants from all over the country. Narrowing the list down to six people was almost impossible. In fact, we were originally budgeted to select five fellows but decided on six because, well, why not?

We selected six brilliant creatives from just as many cities. We prioritized creatives who are new to the digital organizing and/or storytelling space. And after sharing time and space with them during our first of two convenings a few weeks ago, we are excited about all of the magic that they will be creating as individuals and as a cohort.

In addition to creating content for GV, each fellow will organize a community-based event. This will expand our commitment of building power through storytelling by making it even more accessible. These six fellows are going to create a new earth! Here are the six Gran Varones Positive Digital Arts Fellowship:

Carlos Moreno (He/They) Los Angeles, CA

A Gemini in his 28th year of existence, Carlos is a proud Chicanx living his truth as an HIV Positive Queer person from Tucson, Arizona. A product of migration, this first generation being strives to make a helpful and lasting impact on the HIV/AIDS community, both globally and locally. He has stood alongside others in the fight against HIV/AIDS in prevention and as well as in care. Unscathed by stigma, He has navigated the last ten years of his life by reclaiming any animosity he's faced and turned it into a therapeutic artistic expressions. A natural introvert himself, Carlos has struck chords with folks using simple imaging and messaging, leaving faces shocked, surprised, amused, or not in agreement, but definitely began a conversation. Carlos wants nothing more than for other Poz folk to join in on this ARTivism movement, share their experiences and connect with others so that we don’t all feel alone, especially Queer and Trans people of Color. It has been a dream of his to see there be space for distributing such products at events where other LGBTQ/Hetero/ HIV/AIDS information is being accessed. Carlos believes that it is important that people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS have access to the same empowering messages the HIV Negative and prevention communities do, that they are equally represented with pride and equity. Without a real push for some financial assistance, these items may only be limited to the creator and not have the opportunity to help inspire other Poz communities to flourish.

José A. Romero (He/They) Durham, NC

is an abolitionist organizer, immigrant defense strategist, and Poz Poet living in Durham, NC. The first in their bio-family born in the “US”, José is the descendant of working-class immigrants from Morazán, El Salvador and Michoacán, Mexico. Born in Washington State and raised between there and Michoacán, José’s political awakening arose while witnessing kindred femmes undo misogyny and while learning English to confront the borders their family endures. José moved to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania where they were active in movements to confront anti-blackness/homophobia. In Durham they use their research background and direct-action experience to honor past, present, and future radical ancestors. Inspired by apocalypse and alchemy, José’s abolitionist organizing for black/brown flourishing includes work with Durham Beyond Policing, Durham’s Participatory Budgeting Steering Committee, and various immigrant/queer/trans defenders. They have worked on anti-deportation/sanctuary cases across NC and are a proud member of Southerner’s on New Ground working to end money bail, abolish ICE, and pleasurably undo anti-blackness in Latinx communities. José is currently Directing the first Latinx Southern Regional Health conference for the National Latino Commission on AIDS. They’re working on two collections of poetry titled ICEBREAKERSand POZITIVE. They are the host of an open mic series and queer friendship/dating party collectively called MELT. They make their money working at a queer punk bar, as an interpreter, and as a consultant. You can find/book them at @PupusaPapi_27 on Instagram and @RomeroFlux on Twitter. José dreams of curating an Arabic/Mandarin/Spanish exhibit/mixtape as well as opening and inviting y’all to a mobile Freedom School dedicated to astrobiology, pupusas, synesthesia, and uprising.

J. Aces Lira (He/Him/His) Chicago, IL

Aces Lira is an MSW/MA graduate student in Women Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. As a Research Assistant, he is based in the US Regional Network within the International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience (INQYR) and is getting a foot in the door on all things research-related. Outside of the books, Aces orchestrates portraits along with art through different mediums and also lives for National Park excursions.

Marci Garcia (He/Him/His) Brownsville, TX

Sometimes life feels just like one of those theatrical plays or big screen movies; a bunch of dialogue, drama, adventure, tragedy and tears, and a lot of laughter and happy moments as well, all combined. My movie opens in Mexico, born and raised until the age of 10. I was a lucky boy that grew up in a very loving family; abuelos, tios, primos and my beautiful parents and brother always by my side. Still, I was a lonely kid. A kid that knew he was different and had a very a hard time fitting in, all the way through high school and college years. Never an obstacle to aspire to go out in the world and follow my dreams though. Today, I feel I am blessed and thankful to life for being different. I didn’t choose to be who I am, I just got lucky. Throughout my professional career I have wanted to find the place where I know I am not only getting a paycheck but also making a positive difference somehow. Again, through life’s unique way of arranging things I believe I have found that. I am currently part of an extraordinary non-profit organization whose goal is to provide sexual education, HIV prevention and wellness services to the community of South Texas. Being here truly inspires me to become more involved, gain knowledge and to help out combat the HIV stigma that is still out there. I know because I see it, I hear it, I live it. I believe I am working for this agency for a reason. I believe I am ready to accept and say who I am, what I am and what I aspire to become.

Dimetri O’Brien (He/Him/His) Washington, DC

Strategic, multidisciplinary designer & social media coordinator with a spirit for service & innovation born in Port of Spain Trinidad with roots in Jackson, MS . Dimetri has worked with a multitude of clients on projects ranging from graphic design to consultation & management and although his skill set is vast, his greatest expertise revolves in the worlds of programming for YMSM ages 18-29, social media, brand identity design, content creation and print collateral. Dimetri currently serves as a communications assistant in Washington, DC managing communications and branding for a national non-profit agency. His graphic design portfolio can be viewed at "dimmydoesit.com"

Raúl Xavier Ramos (He/Him/His/They/Them/Theirs) Brooklyn, NY

Raúl is a 26-year-old Boriqueer social justice organizer based out of Brooklyn, New York. Using graphic design and performance art as forms of accessible political education , Raúl is dedicated to the liberation of all queer and Gender Non-conforming people of color, persons with disabilities, and those that experience realities in ways the culture would call "mentally ill." Healing justice is at the center of Raúl's work, having become Poz at the turning point of his adult life. He is unapologetic in how he loves and in the ways he fights for justice.

#thegranvarones #granvarones #queer #non-binary #gay #latinx #afrolatinx #hiv #poz #aids #storytelling #creatives #lgbtq #qtpoc #community #end stigma

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chuwenjie · 7 years ago

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My Story

After I posted my letter about starting a new job at Dreamworks I got a lot of messages and emails from people asking if I could talk about my journey more in detail and how I got here despite going to school in Pittsburgh for psychology and almost giving up on animation halfway through college. I know that I would have appreciated reading something like this a year and a half ago so I thought I’d share my story in the hopes that it might be able to help someone who is struggling. Plus: a detailed explanation of how social media has done so much for me as an artist.

Buckle in guys. Lots of text under the cut!

starting college

I’d known for a long time that I wanted to make a living doing art, but understandably my parents were concerned about my future ability to support myself. While they’ve always been supportive of my decision to want to do art, they insisted that I go to university to get a “regular” degree so that I’d have something to fall back on if art didn’t work out.

That’s how I ended up going to school studying to get an interdisciplinary degree in art and psychology. The majority of my classes were in the school of psychology, so most of my education consisted of statistics classes and writing research papers. While I did take art classes in college, they were very fine-arts oriented and not relevant to working in the animation industry. The way I’d describe the kind of art that the program favors would be like a pile of glass shards sitting on the floor of the MOMA. (Nothing against conceptual art- I enjoy looking at it and think it’s cool, but it’s just not what I’m interested in doing professionally.)

the realization

About two months into freshman year, I suddenly felt like I’d made a huge mistake. I realized there were no resources or classes here that would help me with what I wanted to learn, and I started to panic. I decided that it would just have to be up to me to teach myself if I couldn’t get it from school, so during my free time I would constantly be drawing and working on portfolio pieces with the hopes of getting good enough to land a summer internship. Despite being in university where part of the experience is supposed to be to make friends and engage in the community, I didn’t have a social life for a while because all of my time not doing homework was going towards teaching myself how to draw. I started applying to internships and summer jobs. And that’s when I had....

The Worst Time Ever

I applied to every internship and job I could find, and I got rejected from everything. It didn’t matter if it was a big studio internship like Disney or a tiny indie game studio that no one had ever heard of. I applied to everything that I could find because all that mattered to me was getting my foot in the door and having something I could put on my resume.

After 2 years of this, I started to give up hope and seriously doubt if I would ever be able to make it in the industry. I thought for sure that if only I had gone to Calarts or if only I lived in LA, then maybe my situation would be different because I’d have access to people working in the industry and an actual entertainment arts education. I was full of panic because I felt like my time was running out, and soon I would be thrust out into the real world as a disappointment to myself and my parents.

I was really depressed during this period of time, and just thinking about the future would make me cry, no matter what I was doing at the time or where I was. Everything seemed pointless, and I was in a lot of pain because I had attached my ability to draw to my own self-worth. I thought that if I wasn’t good enough to get hired, there was no point in even existing. (Of course, that’s not true at all and I know that now! But it was really hard to silence that voice in my head when I was going through this period of my life.)

and then finally...

My situation finally changed because of social media. I'd been posting my work on Tumblr for a really long time, and as I gradually got better at drawing I started getting more followers and attention on my blog.

My first major breakthrough came when the recruiter at Cartoon Network emailed me saying that someone who works at CN had stumbled across my blog and asked if I'd be interested in doing a background painting test for Steven Universe. I couldn’t believe it. I remember thinking it was some kind of elaborate prank at first and it took me 15 minutes of screaming and trying to validate the email by googling the email address before I finally believed that it was real.

I was so thrilled because it felt like someone had finally recognized me. Even though I didn't end up getting the job, that little bit of encouragement helped to reignite my passion and gave me hope that I could make it. If someone had noticed me, then I just had to keep drawing and more people would notice too, right? I started posting on social media even more and making more ambitious projects and portfolio pieces.

When spring rolled around, I applied to everything I possibly could again, except this time I finally heard back from Cartoon Network instead of getting rejected. I mentioned in my cover letter that I had done a background test and while I don't know if that's the main reason I heard back, I think it must've been at least a little helpful to get my application to stand out from the pile. Getting to intern there was amazing and eye-opening for me, and it gave me my first taste of what it would be like to work in the animation industry. My coworkers and fellow interns were so incredibly kind and talented, and it made me more resolved than ever to work hard so that someday I’d be able to come back.

After completing my summer internship, I got discovered again on social media- this time through Twitter, and that's what ended up getting me freelance at Dreamworks TV, and eventually a full-time offer. I noticed the showrunner had followed me after noticing my GIRL GANG post, which had gained a lot of attention on social media. I’ve been a huge fan of his work for a while and I was really nervous about reaching out, but my boyfriend encouraged me to say hi so I messaged him through Twitter DM to say thank you and express how I admired his work. We had a short conversation and he mentioned that he was looking for new talent for his show, and that's how I ended up here. I’m graduating from school with my good ol psychology degree in two weeks, and I’m going to be moving out to LA to start working at Dreamworks TV as an artist!

Advice

Social media was a huge part of my success and I truly don't think I would've been able to break in as an industry outsider if I hadn't been posting all of my work to the internet for so long. While I was at Cartoon Network, I also talked to the talent hiring staff and they told me that they actually keep tabs on all of the online artists they find. There's a huge spreadsheet where they keep the names and contact information of all these online artists, and they try to track down who's working and who's available so they know when to reach out when they're looking for new employees. This was totally mindblowing to me because it really goes to show how social media and the internet has changed the face of the game. Having prior connections helps a TON of course, but social media was what personally gave me my big break.

You don’t need to go to the right school, or have the right major, or even go to school at all. So many people I met at CN and on the internet have been able to break into the industry with a lot of hard work and a little bit of good fortune. Everyone’s situation is different, and I can only speak for myself and my own experience. But for me, drawing a lot and sharing it online was what helped me despite knowing absolutely no one in the industry and living on the East Coast thousands of miles away from LA.

tldr;

I’m about to graduate from a university in Pittsburgh with a degree in psychology. After years of rejection I almost gave up on my dream of being an artist, but teaching myself how to draw and getting noticed on social media helped open up opportunities for me in the animation industry.

Whew! That was a lot of text, but I hope someone somewhere found that helpful. My final words of advice:

1. Don’t be shy!! Reach out to artists you admire and say hi!

2. Post your work online! Don’t wait until you make your life’s masterpiece to start posting because it’s never gonna happen. Keep sharing what you make and you’ll find that your following will grow as you get better!

3. Don’t be afraid of rejection. Speaking from experience, you can make it even if you get rejected a thousand times. A lot of times, getting rejected doesn’t mean that you’re “bad,” it just means you aren’t the strongest candidate at the time. Keep trying and growing and with a little bit of luck, your situation will flip around.

4. Support your artist friends! Grow with each other and pull each other up.

5. If you are determined and you have the time, you can teach yourself how to do anything.

Thank you everyone for reading and sticking around to the end! If you have any more questions, feel free to send me an ask here, on CuriousCat, or shoot me an email ([email protected]). I want to thank everyone again for supporting me along my journey! My story is only just beginning and I am so excited to grow as an artist and find out what the future holds for me. To anyone reading this who is in a bad place right now, I feel your pain and I hope you never give up on your dream. You can do it!

Best,

Kat

#artists on tumblr #art advice #animation #cartoon network #dreamworks

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oldmancopper · 6 years ago

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Fall 2018 Course Evaluations

Noting that this was a ridiculous semester . . . 147 full time students across 7 classes and 4 subjects . . . I got dinged rightfully for not returning course material with grades in a timely fashion. Fortunately, I have less next semester . . . 146 students . . . 6 classes and 5 subjects...

Ah well... the student’s verbiage

2001:

• At times it is unclear what is necessarily needed for some assignments or quizzes.

• The course was over all very good; gave us a necessary foundation for design on a general basis; which is far more applicable to the constantly changing world of game development than anything else. Beyond that we're taught with what I think sounds like a very realistic expectation of basically what kind of career we're walking into. Also anytime I had questions they were typically answered promptly so I can't complain that was all well and good. We also had, I guess no surprise a good amount of time preparing for a game pitch for this course; which helped to suitably point out strengths and weaknesses to learn from the experience. Over all one of the more beneficial courses I'd say I've taken. Also as an aside I appreciate the humor during the lessons every now and then; helps keep things engaging.

• I feel that this is one of the few classes actually worth taking at this school. I feel that I actually learned something from this class that will help me beyond leaving the school. I hope everyone will be able to take this class with Y_______.

• Learned a lot in this class. Glad i took it and Professor helped whenever i needed it.

• I understand why the textbook was used but most of the information within the book did not aid in helping to understand the course material.

• I fell like I do have a better idea of what a game designer does after taking this course. I kind of wish I had taken it sooner.

• incredibly smart and generous to students. One professor that stands out that truly cares

• this course was wonderful and very useful to me

• Great professor, very organized.

2175:

• Very Good Class

• Homework 12 felt like it was made to be busy work due to the fact that it was just compiling previous information into a document. Other than that, I really appreciated this course. It gave me a good amount of experience that one day may be applicable to me.

• Y_______ is one of the most real professors/teachers that I have ever had. He tells it as it is and doesn't give a damn what you think about it. That's why I respect him so much.

• I really enjoyed this class. The only short coming was that it was incredibly hard to study for, and often I had no idea what I should be studying for an up coming test.

• Excellent professor who teaches really important material.

• Very reasonable Professor. Good class material

• I enjoyed the professor's attitude in class and the way he presented the material.

• I really liked the material that we learned in class was absolutely necessary to help me understand the industry that I am going into. The information was relevant in everyday and the class format of class time to assignments were not too troubling of a load. My only gripe is that the information was given too quickly, I wish we spent more time on certain portions of the material, simply because some of it was extremely interesting or something that I needed clarification on. Other than that it was a dope ass class.

• The Professor makes it a point to have students understand what the true outcome of the course is supposed to be. He is always readily available - if needed - through canvas or email. I think the professor would benefit from having classes two days a week as compared to once a week. I personally am not a fan of once a week classes as it forces the student to retain a lot of information from one session - and each class has a LOT of information (See Ebbinghaus' Learning Curve). One problem I had with the class was what was EXPECTED of us. For example, many of the assignments required us to have a minimum of SOME experience with other types of work. We are NOT business students, we are NOT graphic design students, we are NOT accountants. It shouldn't be expected of us to be able to make a revenue spread sheet or budget spread sheet with ease. It shouldn't be expected of us to make a flashy sell sheet like a graphic design student. It shouldn't be expected of us to be able to come up with a business model - if you haven't taken a business. I've taken a business course before and spent nearly a month on just mastering a business model. In the Professor's (Yarbrough) defense, he doesn't necessarily have the time to do this as it isn't a business class, but, my point still stands. Overall, the Professor has done a well done job and, so far, has been my favorite Professor not just because of his ability to clearly communicate his points for each lecture/class meeting. His assignments, while very different from one another, lead up to one concise goal that is aimed to help us understand the industry we plan to head in as a whole - as compared to understanding one part of the industry.

3900: My teacher does the best he can to help and is very fun and creative. 3901:

• I really enjoyed the lectures; I think that it could be interesting to do more specific topics other than general design, marketing, etc.

• Live Studio is the best experience I have had at this college thus far. Working with a qualified group of my peers taught me more than a class ever could. W___ and M____ are always there to help me and teach me all they know, and I wouldn't be this far along without them.

• Incredible learning experience, I felt like I learned so much from the peer reviews and mock interviews with M____ and W___. They're some of the most knowledgeable people in the industry as well as some of the greatest mentors I've encountered thus far, hope to have a great semester with them next up!

• Live Studio was one of the most helpful things for me as a game design student. It gave me real life experience of working on a team and learning new skills as needed. Professor Y_______ was a great resource when it came to real world knowledge of getting a job, portfolio, resumes, game production, etc.

• This is by far the best class offered at Becker. You work on actual projects that have actual deadlines and actual releases unlike game studio where you work on bs that doesn't prepare you for actual work outside school.

Previous Evaluations, just so I can find them:

https://oldmancopper.tumblr.com/post/156311041341/fall-2016-semester-reviews

https://oldmancopper.tumblr.com/post/146656897816/course-evaluations

https://oldmancopper.tumblr.com/post/173974006616/2018-spring-evaluations

#professor #personal #me #nothumblebragbragbrag #teaching

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